Thread: Walker Stands Strong: Backs Up American Workers Against Open Borders Yet Again

by William Bigelow
26 Apr 2015
512 comments

The conservative movement’s leading media icons lined up to back Scott Walker after the media attempted to lynch him for talking tough on immigration.

After being attacked by outlets such as MSNBC, Mother Jones magazine and the Huffington Post, Walker stayed the course, telling the Quad City Times on Friday that American workers had to come first.

“A couple years ago, when the unemployment rate was at incredibly high levels and labor participation was low, why would we want to flood the market with more workers?” he said. “So that would be a time when you would have arguably less. As the unemployment rate goes down and labor participation rates go up, the two have to go hand in hand. Then it could be conceivably more than we have today. So it’s not a set number.”

The New York Times reported that Walker told Glenn Beck that he favored restricting legal immigration in tough economic times and that Friday, answering two young Republicans, Walker asserted, “In terms of how wide or how narrow the door’s open, our No. 1 priority is American workers and American wages. I don’t know how anyone can argue against that.’’

The conservative backlash came after Walker had been pilloried not only by the media but also some establishment Republicans such as Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rob Portman (R-OH).

Matt Drudge headlined the New York Times piece: “Walker Unflinching; ‘Our No. 1 priority to protect American workers and their wages’ …”

Sean Hannity blasted, “If these establishment folks, instead of attacking guys like Scott Walker—if they put half the effort into helping these desperate Americans as they do into helping the people who don’t respect American laws, don’t respect American sovereignty, maybe those people would be back in the labor force and back working again. Also, maybe we wouldn’t be $18 trillion in debt. Scott Walker is right. These Washington bureaucrats have failed in their duty which is to secure our borders and now it’s resulting in a situation where it’s making it harder for our American citizens to find work.”

After one guest on Glenn Beck’s show stated, “Scott Walker is getting beaten up over his interview with us. Not necessarily by conservatives,” Beck stated, “Yeah, I know that. It’s been like four days now. He was on with us Monday and he’s still being beaten up. I saw another story this morning. So for four days he has been beaten up in the press because he said, “I want to protect American jobs and American workers.”

Answering a caller, Mark Levin bluntly stated of Walker that he was unafraid to take a hard stand, asserting: “Let me tell you Maureen, one did make it a couple of days ago, Scott Walker. To his great credit. And guess who’s attacking him? The crazy fanatics who write editorials, nameless editorials at the Wall Street Journal. Are you sick and tired of the Wall Street Journal? Are you sick and tired of Wall Street? I am. I mean we spent a million dollars bailing those guys out and now this Wall Street Journal editorial page is their mouth piece. We know who they want. They want Jeb Bush. We know what they want. They wanted Romney. They wanted McCain. We know who they are. Do you happen to know, Maureen, 25 or 30 years ago, they literally took the position, I have it here, I’ve read it before, that there should be an amendment to the constitution with 5 words, Thou Shall Have Open Borders. Did you know that? … So now they’re attacking Scott Walker. These little creeps who have done nothing. He’s run a state. He’s fought the public sector unions. He’s grown the state economy. And these little jerks sitting there at the Wall Street Journal. ‘We don’t like that.’ Open borders. Yeah, open borders. Open borders, my you know what!”

Laura Ingraham wrote, “Right on cue. No sooner does Scott Walker reiterate a principled and populist stance on immigration — one which would prioritize the jobs and wages of everyday working Americans — than the mainstream media and Establishment pols emerge ready to attack. Leading the pack of Establishment attack dogs is none other than failed former presidential contender, Sen. John McCain (which raises the question: should the GOP really be taking their lead on how to run a successful presidential campaign from John McCain?) McCain’s attack echoes that of the mainstream media which slammed Walker for adopting a so-called “protectionist” immigration policy. 

But what do all of the attacks against Walker’s immigration platform have in common? Not one of them mentions a single fact about the United States’ current immigration policy. After all, the cardinal rule of mainstream media reporting and Establishment messaging on immigration is to never mention current immigration numbers — under no circumstance, is a mainstream reporter to ever acknowledge that the United States currently admits one million legal permanent residents, 700,000 guest workers, 70,000 refugees, 500,000 student visas and 200,000 spouses of guest workers annually… Scott Walker’s pro-American immigration platform is an incredibly positive development in the 2016 race. It demonstrates that Walker is a leader who is listening to the American people and is prioritizing their needs above the big money special interests and corporatist elites. While other 2016 candidates like Marco Rubio will talk about a need to “modernize” our immigration system (read: import lots of guest workers for open-border billionaires),Walker is the only 2016 candidate talking about creating a legal system of immigration that (finally) puts the needs of American citizens and legal immigrants already here first.”

Michael Savage was brief, and well, savage: “A bunch of rotten villains, every last one of them. They’re all villainous. There’s no other word for it. The American political system is villainous. At this point, the only one I can back is Scott Walker, and I don’t know much about him. I will not back Rubio. He’s a non-entity and never should have run. He’s a clown. Ted Cruz is unelectable. He looks like a weasel and he sounds like a weasel. I don’t care how much you love him. So who’s left. Scott Walker. That’s all.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...l-immigration/

Originally Posted by Jean

the cardinal rule of mainstream media reporting and Establishment messaging on immigration is to never mention current immigration numbers — under no circumstance, is a mainstream reporter to ever acknowledge that the United States currently admits one million legal permanent residents, 700,000 guest workers, 70,000 refugees, 500,000 student visas and 200,000 spouses of guest workers annually… Scott Walker’s pro-American immigration platform is an incredibly positive development in the 2016 race.

Is there anybody else who's willing to say "Americans first" in public?
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

Originally Posted by vistalad

Is there anybody else who's willing to say "Americans first" in public?
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

Not so far. But they've also been strangely quiet. Thinking I imagine on how in the hell do they run a campaign for President putting the welfare of illegal aliens and wannabe immigrants ahead of the best interest of American Workers, American Citizens, American Taxpayers and ... American Voters?

It's going to be a great year for American Politics in 2016, a very exciting race, and Scott Walker just made Immigration the Number One Issue of the 2016 elections.

Michael Savage was brief, and well, savage: “A bunch of rotten villains, every last one of them. They’re all villainous. There’s no other word for it. The American political system is villainous. At this point, the only one I can back is Scott Walker, and I don’t know much about him. I will not back Rubio. He’s a non-entity and never should have run. He’s a clown. Ted Cruz is unelectable. He looks like a weasel and he sounds like a weasel. I don’t care how much you love him. So who’s left. Scott Walker. That’s all.”

IMO, Savage has got it right. Through a process of elimination, we're not left with much to choose from at this point. Is Walker sincere .......... only time will tell.

Originally Posted by MW

IMO, Savage has got it right. Through a process of elimination, we're not left with much to choose from at this point. Is Walker sincere .......... only time will tell.

I loved his choice of the word "villains" to describe these traitors, because that is exactly what they are: VILLAINS.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/27/sc...ration-stance/

Scott Walker Hits Back At WSJ Attack On His Immigration Stance

Chuck RossReporter

6:14 PM 04/27/2015

A Wall Street Journal weekend editorial slamming Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recent comments on immigration is “really wrong on so many different levels,” the likely 2016 presidential contender said on Monday.

In its editorial, entitled “Scott Walker’s Labor Economics,” the normally pro-Walker paper hammered the Republican for statements he made during an interview with Glenn Beck last week. Walker said he believes American jobs and wages should be the top priority when considering any change to immigration policy.

But perhaps his greatest sin — in the Journal’s eyes — was name-checking Alabama U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, an immigration hawk. In the editorial — subtitled “The governor needs a better tutor on jobs and immigration” — the WSJ lambasted Sessions and took Walker to task for heeding his ideas on immigration policy.

“Republicans used to understand this basic economic principle [more workers can mean more jobs], but the politics of immigration is turning some of them into economists for the AFL-CIO,” the editorial reads.

But Walker shot back on Monday in an interview with Boston-based radio talk show host Howie Carr.

“My position on immigration is simple,” Walker told Carr. Like virtually all Republican presidential hopefuls, he said that he is a proponent of securing the border. He also called for universal e-verify and no amnesty.

“If you want to be a citizen, that’s a whole different thing,” Walker said. “You’ve got to go back to your country of origin and get back in line like anybody else.”

He appeared to be baffled by the Journal’s jab, calling it “wrong on so many different levels.”

He said his main point to Beck was that he believes that immigration policy should “make American workers and their wages [the] number one priority.”

He told Carr he believes that is the right approach for not just immigration policy but for tax policy, entitlement policy, and regulations.

“If we’re always thinking of the impact on hard-working Americans we’re going to be fine. If we don’t think about that then we get bad policies in America,” he said, while adding that “there are restrictions on legal immigration today that just don’t make a whole lot of sense.”

Walker has struggled to clarify his stance on immigration policy. In an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace last month he said he supported a measure that is tantamount to amnesty. He said he believes “there’s a way” for an illegal immigrant to embark on a path to citizenship after paying a penalty.

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“Republicans used to understand this basic economic principle [more workers can mean more jobs], but the politics of immigration is turning some of them into economists for the AFL-CIO,” the editorial reads.

WRONG!!! Republicans, Real Republicans, have always understood that more manufacturing jobs will mean more employed workers in the country. But more "workers" before there are more jobs means more unemployed workers in the country living on welfare and/or working at jobs that don't sustain them and using safety nets to survive, which means more poverty, more spending, more taxes and/or debt to pay for it, causing more manufacturing companies and capital investors to flee the country to avoid the higher cost tax environment and the adverse economic conditions of soaring national debt.

You know, I used to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and read it religiously every day, but then something happened, the WSJ was no longer reporting or telling the truth about our economy and was no longer a reliable source for accurate information. What a shame in our country to see both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal fall into the hands of the people destroying our nation and ruining the lives of our citizens. Today, they are nothing more than pawns of the villains bankrupting the United States.

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is hitting back at a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that criticized him for recent comments he made saying American workers and American wages should be kept in mind when making decisions on legal immigration.

Mr. Walker told radio host Howie Carr his position on immigration is "simple" and that it starts with securing the borders and having an effective E-Verify system.

"No amnesty," Mr. Walker said. "If you want to be a citizen, that's a whole different thing. You got to go back to your country of origin and get back in line like anybody else."

On legal immigration, he said, "right now, there are restrictions in America - that column and others acted like there's no restrictions. There are restrictions on legal immigration today - they just don't make a whole lot of sense."

He said the Journal has been right for defending him in some of his battles with labor unions in Wisconsin, but "in this one - really wrong on so many levels."

The Journal piece points out that Mr. Walker mentioned recently he's talked to GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, one of Capitol Hill's staunchest opponents of illegal immigration who has spoken out against expanding H-1B visas for guest workers.

"Mr. Walker is right that the GOP needs to focus on raising the incomes of average Americans, but the way to do that is with policies that increase growth and improve upward mobility. Zero-sum labor economics will do neither," the piece says.

Mr. Walker, a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender, recently told talk show host Glenn Beck: "It is a fundamentally lost issue by many in elected positions today. What is this doing for American workers looking for jobs? What is this doing to wages? And we need to have that be at the forefront of our discussion going forward."

Mr. Walker defended his position in his conversation with Mr. Carr that "a strong economy should be paramount," "and priority number one in that regard should be making sure that we think about the impact on American workers and American wages."

When unemployment is high and labor participation rates are low, he said, "you don't have very much immigration because you don't want to flood the market."

If, over time, unemployment goes down and labor participation rates go up, "then you can change things," he said.

"I just said make American workers and their wages your number one priority," he said. "If we're always thinking about the impact on the hard-working Americans, we're gonna be fine and [if] we don't think about that, well, then we get bad policies in America."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...icizing-his-l/